October 1999
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The Future of Once Protestant Britain
The Public Square The Future of Once Protestant Britain The British media let it all hang out…
Proposing Courtship
Anyone interested in improving relations between men and women today and tomorrow must proceed by taking a…
Rousseau & the Revolt Against Reason
In 1749 the Academy of Dijon offered a prize for the best essay on the question, “Has…
Are We Spiritual Machines?
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 96 (October 1999): 25-31. For two hundred years materialist philosophers have argued…
Angelism and the Provincial Self
(Editors’ Note: This essay is adapted from a convocation address presented at Hillsdale College last October.) I…
Two Boats, a Helicopter & Stem Cells
Remember the story of the guy who died in the flood? A Red Cross boat had come…
Edith Stein, Apostate Saint
The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic…
Culture War No More?
Most American conservatives think they’re engaged in a culture war, and many of them think they’re losing…
Liberating Germaine Greer
I never met Germaine Greer, but I did see her once in live performance—and a most diverting…
Winning Hearts and Minds
Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women.By Andrea L Press and Elizabeth R.…
Contradictions of Modernism
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of ModernismBy T. J. Clarke.Yale University Press. 451 pp.…
Still Waiting for Benedict
Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues By Alasdair MacIntyre. Open Court. 166 pp. $26.95…
Justice Thomas and Liberal Originalism
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.By Scott Douglas Gerber.New York University Press. 201 pp. $30. It…
Briefly Noted 159
The Catholic University as Promise and Project: Reflections in a Jesuit Idiom. By Michael J. Buckley, S.J…
Separation Anxiety
The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity.By Leon J. Podles.Spence. 350 pp. $27.95 Leon Podles has his…
Waiting for Jeremiah
Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion.By Paul J. Griffiths.Oxford University Press. 210…
